North of Oakland in the San Francisco Bay Area, Richmond is perhaps best known for its Chevron Oil Refinery. It’s also home to a large Hispanic population that has yielded high quality highschool soccer teams. Rene Siles has coached the Richmond Oilers since 2000, guided them to North Coast Section playoff berths 18 times, more than […]
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U.S. Soccer blundered badly on high school soccer
American soccer, so plagued by the pay-to-play problem. If only there was youth soccer that didn’t charge kids so much money. Hold on! It does exist, and it’s massive. Nationwide.It’s called high school soccer. Sometimes, hundreds of people show up for a high school game, the players are celebrated on campus, rivalries date back for […]
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United Soccer Coaches announces National Players of the Year
United Soccer Coaches announced its National Players of the Year at the youth, high school and college levels and its National Scholar Players of the Year for high school and collegestudent-athletes. The 2017 MAC Hermann Trophy recipients for NCAA Division I men’s and women’s soccer will be named Jan. 5. The National Players of the […]
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Protesting and the Anthem: An educational opportunity for you and your team
By Greg Winkler High school is a microcosm of society; the actions we see today by professional and college athletes always find a way onto our playing fields and our practices.The current protests by our professional athletes will and may already have found their way to your schools. At a recent Rotary meeting in the […]
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'Coach Jake': New York high school coach hits the cinema
The documentary film, “Coach Jake,” about legendary New York City coach Martin Jacobson, who has guided Martin Luther King Jr. High School in Manhattan to 16 city-widechampionships with his multicultural teams, embarks on its film festival circuit on Thursday. Jacobson served as a guidance counselor at MLK, an inner high school the tabloids dubbed “HorrorHigh,” […]
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What They're Saying: Matt Link
“We have nice things for our students here but certainly not the level of professional jerseys.” — Matt Link, Montpelier High School athletic director, after the Vermontschool boys and girls soccer teams received jerseys from French Ligue 1 club Montpellier after the name on the jerseys was misspelled with one “l” instead of two. The […]
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A coach's life: Phil Savitz, NSCAA High School Coach of the Year, South Carolina legend, big Bruce Arena fan
Interview by Charley Nordin Phil Savitz has coached boys high school soccer for 37 years and serves as the Girls Co-Director of Soccer at South Carolina United, which he joined 11 years ago upon its inception.TheKeeper,” an autobiography by Tim Howard, he talks about his experiences coming up through youth systems up to his professional […]
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NWSL: Waldrum is out as Houston head coach
Randy Waldrum, who left his job as head coach at Notre Dame, one of the most successful women’s programs in the country, to take over as the Houston Dash head coach for its launch in 2014, isout. The Dash and Waldrum agreed to part ways just seven games into the 2017 season. Assistant coach Omar […]
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What They're Saying: Dr. Gina Agredano
“He just stopped breathing, and that was when it was game on. I said to myself we were not going to die today.” — Dr. Gina Agredano, who was watching her son,Jose, play in the final JV high school game of the seasin for San Benito High School in Watsonville, California, when he suffered an […]
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High School vs. Club: Three questions for Brandon Silva
By Mike Woitalla The bashing of high school soccer reached new heights with the U.S. Soccer Federation launching a Development Academy for girls (in 2017) and technical director AprilHeinrichs recently stating that high school ball is “not a playerdevelopment environment. In fact, it develops bad habits and complacency.” Brandon Silva coaches the girls varsity team […]